Today, we're releasing Illustrator CC (22.1) which is available for download from the Creative Cloud desktop application. We're excited to announce several new features and fix for nearly 21 top customer bugs/issues reported on our UserVoice website.

Top Features of the Release

See on-screen controls clearly - You can now increase the size of anchor points, handles, and bounding boxes making them even easier to work with.

Merge data using CSV files - It’s easier than ever to merge data in the Variables Panel now that you can use CSV or XML files.

Import multiple page PDFs - Save time when you import all the pages of a PDF all at once. You can choose a page range or select individual pages.

Top Issues fixed with the release

We have fixed 21 issues this release as reported on our UserVoice website. Please refer to this page for details of these bugs.

We have also fixed top 20 customer submitted crashes across MAC and Win through the crash reporter.

A big thank you to all of you who take time to report issues on UserVoice and submit crash reports. Thank you, we are getting stable because of your feedback. Please continue to vote on our UserVoice and submit crash reports so that we can pick the right set of bugs for the next release.

I've had that issue myself, and generally all thin strokes are displaying too thick - only fix is to disable GPU performance, at which point everything seems normal again. There's a few other bugs which have been added to 22.1 which weren't present in 22.0.1. It's very disappointing. The Illustrator team know about them from beta testing, but decided to release 22.1 regardless.

I've been testing 22.1 on the pre-release programme, I did flag up the Windows/nVidia GPU problem a couple of weeks back. The development team acknowledged it and agreed that it was a problem, but chose to go ahead and release 22.1 to the public regardless. I'm now running 22.1 with GPU switched off, and obviously Illustrator is running a little slower as a result, but it does rectify the GPU glitches which 22.1 has introduced. I guess we'll just have to hope there's a 22.1.1 which fixes the latest "update"...

I'm somehow tired about all the new updates for Illustrator/Photoshop. With every new version they break a lot of basic things (for example text resizing in photoshop, pre version before). After almost every update I have to go back to prev. version

I am still mourning the loss of key features in Adobe Illustrator. As long as Adobe ignores key features such as "maintaining multi-selection while editing with pencil tool" I'll look at each "upgrade" through skeptic eyes.

They now have a native variable-importer function, but it seems more finicky and stripped-down compared to the VariableImporter features I've created and gotten used to myself. I still foresee more users of that script, as more advanced users will likely get hooked via the Adobe native route and then proceed on to the VariableImporter.jsx for its user-friendly features.

New update breaks GPU support on MacOS. I get a big red workspace screen that cannot be removed until you disable GPU Performance. Do not update to this new version! Please fix this Adobe as not good enough to say just turn off GPU Performance.

your copy of Illustrator looks awful. Please email us at sharewithai@adobe.com this is not something that we have seen on MAC. We have seen this a few times on windows where it was resolved with the display driver update.

Same GPU problems here. Since updating to the March 2018 update, I get a black screen whenever I open or create a file. The fix for me is to turn off GPU Performance in Preferences. This is not an acceptable long-term solution.

I believe Vasily Hall found out right away that the csv importer will only accept a csv file with Windows line endings.

Although I tried it the other day with Unix formatted line endings and it imported fine. The only thing that won't work is the Mac formatted line endings. When I tried to import that I got the "invalid" error.

Thank you and the team very much for paying attention to the list of small UI buglets in the last version. They are not show-stoppers, but when you live inside Illustrator every day, those things really frustrate. I really appreciate the fast response to the community's requests.

Wondering if I am missing something. You can now open a PDF using all pages and it will open all pages as artboards, however... you cant just select "page 2" (etc...) and have it open page 2... it will always open page 1.Is this a bug now? You can open page 2 by typing in the number 2 below the page preview...Nice of Adobe to add that multi artboard open, but... why kill the old feature totally?